On the other side, people from the Traveling Merchant Organization followed the traces left by black traders and arrived at a place where mutated scavenging squirrels were rampant.
The big man wearing a gray mask showed no fear at all when he saw the mutant scavenger squirrels crowding the corridor like mountains and seas, because for him, such a scene was...common.
As the most secretive gray merchant of the traveling merchant organization, what he and his men do most every day is to eliminate monsters in the underground labyrinth.
The place with the most monsters is the stinking ditch. Gray Merchant and his men have been to the stinking ditch many times, and have also faced dense sieges that are even more terrifying than before.
Therefore, when looking at this group of mutated scavenging squirrels, not only the gray merchants were not afraid, but all the people in gray uniforms acted very relaxed.
On the contrary, most of the people in the rear, wearing black and white uniforms, looked timid.
The gray merchant glanced at the group of cowards and shook his head with a sneer. With the quality of this group of people, they could only bully the adventure groups on the surface. If something really happened, they would run faster than anyone else.
However, after all, Gray Merchant was only responsible for his own subordinates. He had no control over the subordinates of Black Merchant and White Merchant. Therefore, he took it back with a sideways glance.
Looking at his men, the gray merchant said calmly: "Who will come this time?"
Among the people in gray uniforms, six people raised their hands.
The gray merchant clicked on three people in succession: "You three, put your hands down. This is not an extermination operation. We don't have time to advance slowly."
Immediately afterwards, the gray merchant looked at the other three people who raised their hands, hesitated for a moment, and first looked at the man on the far right who was wearing a gray mask, but the mask had the image of an evil ghost: "Ghost, we can't judge these monsters.
The specific number, your shadow shuttle, may not last until the end."
The ghost didn't say anything and directly put down his hand.
The gray merchant then looked at the remaining two people. One of them looked like a short girl under the age of fourteen. She used the mask as a decoration and clamped it on her pink hair. She raised her little hands as high as possible and jumped from time to time, for fear that the gray merchant would see her.
The other one is a green-haired man with a lazy temperament. He is not wearing a mask, but pins the mask on his waist, revealing his freckled face.
The gray merchant first looked at the pink-haired girl and frowned: "Why are you here to join in the fun?"
Pink-haired girl: "I didn't join in the fun. There are still traces of illusion here. The group of people before must have used illusion. I am also an illusion wizard, so I can do it."
Gray Shang: "If you just want to compare the level of illusion, I tell you, you have already lost."
The pink-haired girl looked unconvinced, but the gray merchant had already turned to look at the green-haired man, and she could only puff up her cheeks angrily.
"Shepherd, you come this time." The gray merchant looked at the green-haired man and made a decision directly.
The green-haired man known as the Shepherd stretched out and took out a piccolo from behind the mask on his waist: "Okay, I haven't encountered a rat monster for a long time. I even forgot about the rats roaming around.
The rhythm is up... Oh, by the way, does a squirrel count as a rat?"
Gray merchant: "Don't ask boring questions and act quickly."
The shepherd pouted, holding a piccolo, and walked toward the group of terrifying and ugly monsters alone.
The melodious sound of the flute slowly floated, and all the mutated scavenger squirrels who heard the sound of the flute were startled. Their small scarlet eyes, which were originally full of murderous intent, slowly became confused.
The shepherd just played his flute and walked towards the group of mutated scavenging squirrels.
The mutated scavenging squirrels did not attack the shepherd, but instead took the initiative to make way for the shepherd. The scavenging squirrels on both sides swung their heads leisurely and swayed to the sound of the flute, as if they were dancing.
When the men of the black and white merchants saw this scene, they all looked surprised. They did not expect that the gray merchant only sent one of his men to handle the situation that they thought was completely unmanageable.
"Stop being stunned and follow along." Gray Shang glanced at the group of people in black and white uniforms and shouted. As for his own men, they had already followed the shepherd's footsteps.
The people in black and white uniforms seemed to have woken up from a dream and followed him one after another.
Hui Shang was the last to follow, not because he wanted to be in the rear, but because he noticed that Bai Shang seemed a little strange, and he just wanted to ask about his situation when he fell behind.
"What's wrong with you?" Gray Shang was very polite to Bai Shang. Although Bai Shang was only responsible for the logistics of the organization, Bai Shang himself was an extremely knowledgeable person, and he also mastered a very rare weapon in the Southern Territory.
Talent: Inscription Literature.
More importantly, white merchants often helped gray merchants draw inscription patterns.
The evil ghost on the ghost mask is Bai Shang's masterpiece.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Bai Shang said so, but Gray Shang was not sent away.
Hui Shang just watched quietly, and then moved his eyes downward, looking at Bai Shang's hand that clenched the skirt of his clothes and the veins popping out on his hand.
Bai Shang was silent for a moment, then breathed out and said, "I'm fine, but... there was an accident at Hei Shang's side."
The black businessman and the white businessman are openly against each other, but as a senior member of the Bilos family, the gray businessman knows very well that the black businessman and the white businessman are brothers. The external fight between the two is completely planned by the black businessman.
It can be said that he is naughty, but in fact, people familiar with the matter understand that Hei Shang simply wants to gain more presence in front of his brother Bai Shang.
As brothers and twins, they have a spiritual connection. If something happens to one, the other will also feel it.
Obviously, Bai Shang felt that something was wrong with his brother.
The gray merchant pondered for a moment and then asked something that sounded very rude: "Are you dead?"
Bai Shang knew who Gray Shang was, and his words were not rude, but to confirm the general situation and to consider the next response.
"I'm not dead, but I feel like I'm in a pretty bad situation."
"Can you feel his general location?"
Bai Shang closed his eyes, carefully sensed it for a moment, and said with a slight hesitation: "It seems to be right in front."
Gray Shang nodded and didn't say anything more, nor did he comfort Bai Shang. Instead, he came directly to the shepherd.
"Accelerate the progress, it's too slow."
Isn’t this too slow? The shepherd almost lost his breath while playing the flute.
"When I say it's too slow, it's too slow. Speed up the progress, at least twice as fast as it is now. If you can go faster, you will be rewarded when you go back."
Gray merchants often give out rewards to everyone, but it is rare for them to give individual rewards. The last one was Guiying, and the reward he got was the inscription on the mask, which greatly strengthened Guiying's ability and made everyone jealous.
Incredible.
The shepherd was playing the flute and pointing at the ghost's mask. The meaning was self-evident: Is it okay to have an inscription on it?
Gray merchant: "Okay."
As soon as the shepherd heard this answer, his lazy temperament suddenly changed and he became full of energy. The sound of the flute was no longer a melodious sound, but a rhythmic flute music, matching the drumbeat of the shepherd's deliberate tapping.
The whole painting style seemed to be on fire.
The faster the shepherd steps, the faster the mutated scavenger squirrel makes way.
This quickly doubled their progress.
However, the shepherd was obviously not satisfied yet. The blood power of his feet exploded and transformed into two sheep feet inlaid with iron plates. The stepping speed became faster and faster, and the sound similar to drum beats also accelerated rapidly.
At some point, everyone's hearts began to beat violently to the sound of the shepherd's flute.
"Ghosts, blind everyone's hearing and touch." Gray Shang felt that everyone's expressions were wrong, and immediately arranged for ghosts to blind them.
After losing hearing and touch, everyone looked at the shepherd as if they were looking at a madman dancing wildly. However, no one showed contempt.
From the violent drumbeat just now, you can know how terrifying it is for the shepherd to show his true strength.
Before, they could only speed up twice as fast, but now with the outbreak of the Shepherd, everyone is progressing faster and faster. In the end, the Shepherd directly reached three times the original speed. This is an astonishing result.
When the white merchant sensed the black merchant's position, the shepherd slowed down his flute playing.
At this time, the shepherd was pale all over, and beads of sweat were dripping from his face. It could be seen that the outburst just now cost his life.
"We're here, right there." Bai Shang suddenly pointed in a direction.
At this time, everyone did not know that they were looking for the black merchant. When they saw the direction of the white merchant's finger, they thought there was something unusual there.
In fact, there is indeed something unusual there, that is, there is a small dog hole on top of the high wall.
However, what Bai Shang was referring to was not the dog hole, but a skinny and comatose mutated scavenging squirrel underneath the dog hole.
Others didn't know what happened, but Gray Shang and Bai Shang quickly came to the side of the mutated scavenger squirrel, and Bai Shang carefully put his hand on its brow.
After a while, Bai Shang breathed a sigh of relief: "It's just that the blood and energy are exhausted, and the root is not damaged. It will take some time to recover."
Hearing this, Gray Merchant also let go of his heavy burden. The importance of Black Merchant is not only his personal strength, but also that Black Merchant is very grateful to the Bilos family who saved his life, which also made Black Merchant take the initiative to join
However, Bai Shang will never leave as long as the Black Shang remains here.
Therefore, seeing the black merchant still alive, not only the white merchant was happy, but the gray merchant also slowly relaxed his tense heart.
Bai Shang carefully picked up the scavenging mutated squirrel from Black Shang, and then said to Gray Shang: "I can't move forward with you for the time being. I need to give Hei Shang basic treatment first, otherwise there will be sequelae even if he recovers."
The gray merchant nodded. The gray merchant was originally responsible for the underground maze. This time both black and white merchants came, just because they discovered the new entrance first, which gave them priority to explore.
Just when Bai Shang was about to say goodbye, he suddenly let out a sigh.
Under Gray Shang's attention, Bai Shang gently opened Hei Shang's closed mouth, and a ball of energy slowly floated out.
The energy was very thin, even so thin that it only left a shadow in the sky and then disappeared.
And the shadow left by the energy is only a row of words: Don't go into the dog hole, there are invincible enemies there...
Obviously, this was a warning left by the black merchant with his remaining energy after suffering an inhuman encounter. But in the end, the energy may have been exhausted, or he may have fallen into a coma, and he did not tell the specific situation.
But this is enough.
This is a warning, no matter what is invincible inside, as long as you know not to go to that dog hole. The black businessman obviously made the wrong choice when choosing the route and went into the dog hole. This led to the current situation.
"He left behind a very useful piece of information." Gray Merchant: "But it seems that he hasn't caught up with the group of earlycomers yet."
After a pause, Gray Shang looked at Bai Shang: "Then let's move on."
Bai Shang nodded: "I'll go back to the base first."
When Bai Shang was about to retreat, he suddenly stopped and said to Gray Shang: "You need to pay attention to the group of early arrivals. If we can communicate in a friendly manner, try not to fight to solve the problem. They left us with many things along the way.
The prompt may be a show of kindness or a provocation, I prefer the former.”
The gray merchant was silent for a moment: "I understand, I will handle it."
After speaking, the three major businessmen of the Traveling Merchant Organization separated here. The Gray Merchant led a group of his men and continued the pursuit. The White Merchant, on the other hand, led himself and the Black Merchant's men back.
In fact, this group of subordinates can continue to follow Hui Shang, but Bai Shang thought about it and decided that with their little strength, they might as well forget it. Anyway, there is a living area at the entrance here. They should be able to stay there and explore.
harvested.
…
With the separation of the three merchants, black, white and gray, the dog hole on the high wall slowly disappeared.
At the same time, deep in the dog hole, a small voice came out: "It is rare to meet a living person, so I let him go like this. I am really unwilling to accept it."
Another rough voice replied: "Have you forgotten what the Master just told me? People from the Youshang Organization are cleaning up the smelly ditches. Only by the cycle of monsters can the magic energy array be nourished. This can also be regarded as helping Naraku return.
Thanks for the credit, just use some blood and energy for research, there is no need to hurt your life."
"And the group of people outside just now were organized by traveling merchants, so they won't be able to eat them if they are captured."
A small voice said: "What about the first few people? They don't wear the clothes of the traveling merchant organization."
The rough voice muttered: "Didn't they choose to take this path? Moreover, I vaguely feel that they are not simple. If they choose our path, the winner may not be us."
"So that's it? Then, should we tell the Master?"
"You still want to bother the master over such a trivial matter? Forget it, you can go if you want. Don't think that I don't know, you just miss your mother."
A burst of laughter sounded from the depths of the dog cave, and then the dog cave returned to silence...
…
On the other side, Angel and others had successfully detoured out of the Procuratorate.
However, they were faced with a choice between two paths at this time.
On one side is a deep and bottomless alleyway between buildings, and on the other is a small transparent garden illuminated by fluorite.
Judging from the direction at the end, it seems that they can reach their destination, but which one to choose requires a decision.
Angel did not speak this time, but looked directly at Doakes.
"Don't you make a choice?" Doakes asked doubtfully.
Angel: "Since I decided to listen to you when I first started taking this path, I'll listen to it until the end."
Seeing that Doakes was still hesitant, Angel thought for a while and added: "Besides, even if something goes wrong, I don't have to take the blame."
Doakes: "Sure enough, you are just afraid of taking the blame for making the wrong choice. Okay, I'll do it. I'm never afraid of taking the blame!"
After Doakes finished speaking, he took the handover of the baton to make a decision.
Angel was behind, chatting privately with the Black Earl, guessing which path Doakes would choose?
Black Earl: "If it were you, which one would you choose?"
Angel thought for a while: "In my opinion, it might be a small garden. The fluorite in the small garden is quite bright. Witch-eyed ghosts are creatures that like darkness. It should be safer to walk through the small garden."
Black Earl: "My answer is the same as yours. But Doakes may be confused."
Reverse inspiration does not mean that every inspiration is wrong. Doakes needs to judge whether the guidance the inspiration gave him this time is true or false.
Therefore, what Doakes is thinking about now is not the issue of danger, but the issue of whether to believe in inspiration.
Doakes had gone against the grain once before when it came to choosing a path. Will he continue to go against the grain this time?